Multiblock robot system

• US 6,934,603 B1
• Filed: 04/23/1999
• Issued: 08/23/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Uwe Kochanneck
• Original Assignee: Uwe Kochanneck
• Inventors: Kochanneck, Uwe
• Primary Examiner(s): Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Marc, McDieunel, Marc, McDieunel
• Application Number:
  US09/298,204
• Time in Patent Office: 2,314 Days
• Field of Search: 700/245, 700/93, 700/302, 700/258, 700/248, 700/275, 701/24, 701/23, 701/111, 701/120, 370/390, 370/352, 370/389, 370/392, 370/496, 370/522, 455/414, 455/466, 455/404, 455/419, 455/445, 455/560, 705/6, 705/412, 342/23, 342/33, 342/36, 342/54, 318/587
• US Class Current: 700/245
• CPC Class Codes: B25J 9/08 characterised by modular constructions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/26 Rail vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/36 Vehicles designed to transport cargo, e.g. trucks
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2200/40 Working vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/32 Auto pilot mode
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/53 in combination with an external power supply, e.g. from overhead contact lines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/51 Photovoltaic means
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/52 Wind-driven generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/80 Exchanging energy storage elements, e.g. removable batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 8/003 Converting light into electric energy, e.g. by using photo-voltaic systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 8/006 Converting flow of air into electric energy, e.g. by using wind turbines
• CPC Class Codes: B60S 5/06 Supplying batteries to, or removing batteries from, vehicles exchanging batteries for electric propulsion of vehicles B60L53/80
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 1/00 General arrangement of stations, platforms, or sidings; Railway networks; Rail vehicle marshalling systems shunting humps and shunting devices B61J; construction of platforms E01F1/00; time-tables G09D
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 15/00 Combinations of railway systems
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 10/40 Mobile PV generator systems
• CPC Class Codes: H02S 20/30 Supporting structures being movable or adjustable, e.g. for angle adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 10/10 Photovoltaic [PV]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/50 Photovoltaic [PV] energy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/60 Electric or hybrid propulsion means for production processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 30/00 : Transportation of goods or passengers via railways, e.g. energy recovery or reducing air resistance
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 : Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 : Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 : Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

The advantage of flexible multi-axis robot systems and robot cell-unit systems being further extended by providing electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock individual computer units, central computers, board computers, satellite units, antenna units, open and contact protected under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines. The electric and electronic E-POOL networks being far-reaching energy independent and having continuous data exchange to all E-POOL network members, composing a self operating E-POOL compound E-POOL users, equipped with E-POOL computer units and to these compatible E-POOL order software, are transmitting orders and instructions to the E-POOL central computers for deliveries and services, which are immediately, self operating produced from the E-POOL compound, composed, distributed and transported to the aimed destination and the precise position of a company ground, an institutional building, a house floor, to a private apartment, and to any other predetermined destination.

Claims

1. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network comprising:

Electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock E-POOL individual computer units, central computers, board computers, satellite units, antenna units, open and contact protected road and street under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines with internal control point identification marks, position and direction code train guide-ways composed of thin-coat varnish and thin layer metalised adhesive foils with integrated induction conductors, deposited on the road and street surfaces and identical to the road and street surfaces deposition, upper side and inside of said open and contact protected road and street under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines, wherein;

said electric and electronic E-POOL networks are far-reaching energy independent, having continous data exchange to all E-POOL network members by means of multiblock robot standard parts with internal current and communication lines, in interconnection with roof solar units, segment solar units, solar and wind power installations, with battery supplying and battery recharge E-STOPS, composing a self operating E-POOL compound,

said electric and electronic E-POOL networks are integrating multiblock transport robots, street operation robots, service robots, multiblock robot service vehicles, traffic and transport group arrangements, composed of individual cars and vans, heavy load transporters, busses, rail-road-street transporters, distribution group arrangements with mobile production and composition group arrangements, delivery and direct withdrawal group arrangements, mobile and stationary refrigerator and distribution boxes, as also stationary production and composition group arrangements; and

said electric and electronic E-POOL networks composed for E-POOL users, are equiped with said E-POOL individual computer units, having compatible E-POOL order software, transmitting orders and instructions to said E-POOL central computers for deliveries and services, which are immediatly, self operating produced from said E-POOL compound, composed, distributed and transported to an aimed destination and precise position of a company ground, an institutional building, a house entrance, to an apartment entrance, and to any other predetermined destination.

2. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines of said E-POOL networks are provided with water discharge slots, positioned in distances to each other, for the discharge of rain water, to water discharge channels, leaded directly below said under floor current and communication supply lines, said water discharge channels having sewage pumps in greater distances to each other and discharging the sewage water into the public canalisation;

said contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines of said E-POOL networks are provided with E-STOP multiblock solar and wind power stations, installed in center line position to the drive directions, but also laterally at street sides for the far-reaching autonomous current supply of said contact protected under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines;

said multiblock solar and wind power stations of said E-POOL networks, being directly connected with said contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines, by means of socket flange booster chambers.

3. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said, E-POOL traffic, transport, distribution and composition group arrangements are provided with socket flange booster chambers for multiblock robot speech reproduction control units, with E-POOL checkcard reader units with programmed control code and coded entry and access justification;

said multiblock standard parts and said socket flange booster chambers are pluged together to multi-axis multiblock under floor and upper floor current and communication pivoting arms, having contactless sensor units for train guidance, positioning and position control, by scanning said position and direction code train guide-ways;

said contact protected under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines are provided with entrance-exit pivoting units for pivoting in and pivoting out of communication commutator carriages, without drive slow down.

4. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said E-POOL traffic, transport, distribution and composition group arrangements are equiped with sensor outside rings, having sonar and infrared sensors for locating of nearby objects and persons;

said E-POOL traffic, transport, distribution and composition group arrangements receive freely, at 360°

pivoting, inside compartments, instead of the usually used doors, having an automobile body cover structures with side-window insertion and lateral and back sided access openings, and being supported by annular chassis tracks, provided precisely in center line of said E-POOL traffic, transport, distribution and composition group arrangements, said inside compartments are provided with slide-in, slide-out units for take over, deposition and transport of multiblock robots, of persons, goods, devices and materials;

said inside compartments are pivoted, so that the lateral and back sided access openings are becoming free for entry of persons and for loading of goods and objects, and having longitudinal roller sealing rubbers, closing tightly said automobile body cover structure, during swing-in states, ready for drive;

said inside compartments have to the left and to the right, beside of seats, manually commanded control units which comprise steering control units, for manual steering take over of users at every time, thus disconnecting entirely or partially self operating functions;

said manually commanded control units of said inside compartments having moreover keyboards and multiblock robot speech reproduction units for operational dialog with said board computers, furthermore checkcard reader units, additionally to outer contour checkcard reader units which are pluged in, for first verification of user justifications, thus for a dual verification of justifications to use said E-POOL network, releasing a control signal for switching to a free use all functions;

said inside compartments are pivoted by one of said multiblock standard parts which is centrally pluged, for enabling free access, unhindered entry and load take over, by pivoting said inside compartments to the left or to the right, after the release of control signals;

said inside compartments ae provided with palettes, load containers, load forks, load elevating devices, containers, conveyor belts, two or more seats for persons, for the take over transfer, the deposition and transport of objects, loads, materials, devices, robots and persons.

5. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said E-POOL traffic, transport, distribution and composition group arrangements are serviced and prepared for readiness in availability subways, provided laterally to the roads and streets, said availability subways also provided for maintenance, cleaning and battery exchange and recharge operations, provided for these operations with said contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines and with installations of said E-STOPS;

said availability subways are provided with entrance and exit openings, horizontally closed by roller doors which are driven by said multiblock drive units;

said multiblock road and street operation robots are driving on own belt drive or wheel drive units, being provided for service and maintenance within said availabiltiy subways, for outside supervisions of said E-POOL network and for cleanding of lanes, tracks, and inside compartments, for removing of drive obstacles, for repair and new installations of said contact protected under and upper floor current and communication supply lines and of said position and direction code train guide-ways;

said multiblock road and street operation robots are driving within especially for road and street works provided multiblock robot service vehicles, said multiblock robot service vehicles coupled to provided mobile position and direction code train guide way laying-containers, containing varnish material for said varnished metalised thin-coats and containing said thin layer metalised adhesive foils, composed of roll materials;

said multiblock road and street operation robots with said multiblock robot service vehicles and said road and street machines, mark and lay down in speedy operation cycles of road and street color marking and rolling material laying machines, said position and direction code train guide-ways, precisely and in exact positions on the roads and streets, with optional directions, curves and ascents, precisely positioned and controlled by driving ahead road and street operation robots.

6. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said multiblock transport robots have for the orientation during transport operations and for delivery in rooms and multiple floor buildings, at the ground and under the ceilings, there provided position and direction code train guide ways for contactless train guides;

said multiblock transport robots are provided for said contactless train guide in rooms and multiple floor buildings, are equiped with pivoting-arms sensors at both ankles and additionally in the range of ceilings at there pluged robot solar units, which are combined with centrally provided image recognition units and with said antenna units;

said multiblock transport robots, provided for the transport of heavy loads and of said stationary refrigerator and distribution boxes, are equiped with hydraulic socket flange booster chambers which are pluged on rotation flange plug connections of said multiblock robot standard parts, containing hydraulics pumps and hydraulics fluids, which through separately provided multi fluid channels, sheathing said current and communication channels of said multiblock standard parts with its current and communication conductors, lead said hydraulic fluid to hydraulic valves of said multiblock transport robots gear units and gripper units, thus for torque increasing of said rotation flange plug connections, and additionally to said multi fluid channels are provided control channels for said hydraulic fluids control and return flow.

7. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said rail-road-street transporters and busses are driving on rails and likewise on roads and streets and are self operating leaving the rails for running on streets and vice versa, in full speed;

said rail-road-street transporters and busses are provided with rail-road-street wheel units, arranged in direction of the axis, beside the road and street wheels and also arranged separately, one behind the other, and in accordance with the use, rail or road and street, respective needed wheels, being pivoted to the upper or lower position by means of said multiblock standard parts, in the same way as for the current and communication pivoting arms, so that, if getting contact with the roads and streets, said rail wheels being pivoted to the upper position, and In the case of rail ride, said rail wheels have contact with the rails and said road and street wheels being pivoted to the upper position;

said rail-road-street transporters and busses having said train guides for fully self operating ways rail rides centrally to the rail tracks, where said position and direction code train guide-ways and said internal control point identification marks are deposited on available sleepers of the rail body, and there being contactless scanned from said multiblock standard part sensors of said under floor and upper floor current and communication pivoting arms;

said rail-road-street transporters and busses, being equiped with roof current and communication pivoting arms for current and communication connection with open overhead current and communication supply lines;

said rail-road-street transporters and busses, having for transition from the rail to the road and street, and likewise from the road and street to the rail, entrance-exit pivoting units and there provided ascent slopes to the road and street lanes;

said roof current and communication pivoting arms for current and communication connection with said open overhead current and communication supply lines, are pivoted from said open overhead current and communication supply lines, during transition from the rail to the road, and simultaneously, the under floor current and communication pivoting arms are pivoted into the contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines;

said roof current and communication pivoting arms for enabling the current and communication supply, using also current and communication supply lines which are provided laterally to the drive direction, in correspondence with the respective, existing track equipment.

8. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said distribution group arrangements with said mobile production and composition group arrangements and said delivery and direct withdrawal group arrangements, said mobile and stationary refrigerator and distribution boxes, as also said stationary production and composition group arrangements are provided with concentric, pivotable annular bodies for materials, devices and goods, having access passages and access openings;

said concentric, pivotable annular bodies are equiped with said multiblock drive units which on its circular tracks, are guided on said position and direction code train guide ways and having power supply by means of said contact protected under floor current and communication supply lines;

said concentric, pivotable annular bodies are supporting on its outer annular body, pivotable telescopic carriers pivoted by said multiblock drive units, for a transfer of said multiblock robots, as also of materials and goods, from outside to inside and vice versa;

said multiblock robots having a robot solar unit in head position which is provided with lateral rotation flange plug connections, having roller units in correspondence to telescopic runway dimensions and by means of this trolley like equipment, serving as robot overhead drive units, so that said robots are freely moveable and overhead transfered, suspending in said telescopic carriers for floor free inside and outside works;

said telescopic carriers having moreover said rotation flange plug connections, congruent to said rotation flange connections in head position of said stationary refrigerator and distribution boxes, for the self operating take over and deposition in said inside room or vice versa to the outside, taking over from, or for deposition on, said congruent rotation flange plug connections, provided on the ground;

said multiblock robots being additionally inserted on said position and direction code train guide ways, ground floor guided within said inside rooms, and driving from the inside room to the outside and vice versa;

said stationary refrigerator and distribution boxes, as also said mobile and stationary production and composition group arrangements are equiped with air condition socket flange booster chambers, using in the same way like hydraulic socket flange booster chambers, said central multi fluid channels with the additional control chambers of said multiblock standard parts, and distributing within said inside rooms, cooling fluid for cooling of food and air condition, and for thus having for the air exchange, air condition exhaust slots;

said concentric, pivotable annular bodies of said mobile and stationary production and composition group arrangements and said delivery and direct withdrawal group arrangements, are equiped with purchase containers, shelf containers and partitions;

said purchase containers and other goods and ordered materials and devices, are delivered from said multiblock transport robots to house entrances and from there, by means of said house service robots, they are transfered up to private apartments, working rooms, labs, offices, hospitals, into the rooms, for reception of the orderers;

said group arrangements giving free acces for users to the enclosed goods and materials inside of said group arrangements, if an E-POOL user puts an E-POOL user checkcard into reader slots, provided at the outer contour of said group arrangements, releasing a control signal, and said concentric pivotable annular bodies are pivoted to the direction of said access openings and the reserved access sector, determined for the respective orderer, opens, thus that the E-POOL user has access to his order, to said purchase container and his ordered goods within corresponding shelf partitions.

9. A Multiblock robot prodcution and distribution network as claimed in claim 1 wherein:

said E-POOL satellites are composed of said multiblock standard parts, pluged together with socket flange boster chambers, having said antenna units and said pivotable multiblock solar units;

said mobile E-POOL group arrangements are provided with roof solar units which in stand position are pivoted, and adjusted for the optimal energy use, horizontally and vertically continuously adapted with its solar surfaces, corresponding to the respective level and always vertical direction of the sun irradiation, by means of said multiblock robot pivoting arms, and which are self operating repivoted into the original position, in the same level with the roofs, if the mobile group arrangements are restarting for driving;

said E-POOL distribution and production group arrangements are provided with circular roof solar units with said multiblock robot pivoting arms, having integrated said antenna units with said multiblock robot pivoting arms for its own self operating, individual pivotation and optimal signal reception, separated from said multiblock robot pivoting arms for said circular roof solar units;

said E-POOL distribution and production group arrangements having moreover outside peripheral said segment solar units, horizontally pivotable and installed with an inclination to the sun direction.